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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in strongSwan affect IBM Chassis Management Module (CVE-2017-9022, CVE-2017-9023)

Created by Sheila Hegeman on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/868768
868768

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Chassis Management Module has addressed the following vulnerabilities in strongSwan.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Chassis Management Module has addressed the following vulnerabilities in strongSwan.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2017-9022

Description: strongSwan is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper validation of RSA public keys passed to the gmp plugin. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/126803 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-9023

Description: strongSwan is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of CHOICE types in ASN.1 parser and x509 plugin. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/126804 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Product Version
IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) 2PET

Remediation/Fixes:

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/.

Product Fix Version
IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)
(ibm_fw_cmm_2pet14k-2.5.10k_anyos_noarch)
2PET14K-2.5.10k

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

References:

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
09 November 2017: Original Copy Published

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Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

PureFlex System and Flex System:Operating system independent / None

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Document Information

Modified date:
30 January 2019

UID

ibm1MIGR-5099642